Catastrophe in America.
New York, Dec. 31. A passenger train and a goods train collided on the BaltimoreOhio railway near Washington. The deaths are estimated at between fifteen and forty. The injured number a hundred. New York, Dec. 31. Details of the Baltimore accident show that an empty train, travelling at a speed of sixty miles an hour, was hurled into a crowded train standing at Terracitta station. The driver of the latter feeling the crash opened the throttle of his engine, hoping to pull the train out of further danger. The victims were thus strewn over the track for a distance of a mile. Thirtyeight were killed and fifty injured.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 3 January 1907, Page 4
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111Catastrophe in America. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 3 January 1907, Page 4
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